213. Those whom medicines don't cure, nature cures.           154. We have no right to consume happiness without producing it. (Bernard Shaw)           16. He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, and he who gives to the rich, will become poor. (Bible, Proverbs, Chapter 22:16)           169. All my efforts have been aimed at reducing stupidity and increasing honesty in people. (Walter)           219. To be happy, one must constantly strive for this happiness and accept it. It depends not on circumstances, but on oneself.           168. Let generosity never exceed opportunity. (Publius Syrus)           133. Success depends largely on the state of one's own spirit, on the firmness of one's intentions, and on the inflexibility of one's character.           118. Reason is given to man so that he may live wisely, and not merely so that he may see that he lives foolishly. (V. Belinsky)           210. A man digs his own grave with a knife and fork. (Old proverb)           73. When too much energy is spent on promises, too little remains for fulfillment. (K. Simonov)           39. For evil to triumph, only one condition is necessary: ​​for good people to sit idle. (E. Burke)           64. The worse the wheel, the louder it creaks. (A. Rivarol)           142. I treat people well because I expect nothing good from them. (O. Brik)           157. "We have what we need if we use what we have." (Dr. Edgar Kahn)           237. When the state is governed according to reason, poverty and want are shameful; When a state is not governed according to reason, riches and honors are shameful. (Confucius)           89. The lazy are always planning to do something. (L. Vauvenargues)           123. There is nothing more shameful than being useless to society and to oneself, and having the intelligence to do nothing.           129. Whatever others think of you, do what you think is right. (Pythagoras)           175. Time hates to be wasted. (Henry Ford)           151. Agriculture depletes the soil only when it is conducted unwisely, in a predatory manner. (S. A. Podolinsky)           18. You must make good out of evil, because there is nothing else to make it out of. (R. Warren)           164. He who wants, does; he who does not, shows off. (N. Vekshin)           236. If the state is governed correctly, poverty and low birth are shameful. If the state is governed incorrectly, then poverty and high birth are also shameful. (Confucius)           234. To govern a multitude of people, it is better to be humane than arrogant, and better to be merciful than cruel. (N. Machiavelli)           144. Moderation multiplies the joys of life. (Democritus)           246. And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. (John 8:32)           135. He who has the courage to confess his actions must find peace. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           216. Happiness, like health, is there when you don't notice it.           221. After those who occupy the highest positions, I know of no more unhappy people than those who envy them. (F. Maintenon)           158. A person is his own creditor and the issuing center of his money, or rather, the subject of his energetic obligations to others. (V.P.)           100. Wealth is the savings of many in the hands of one. (Y. Tuwim)           67. A person's character has more flaws than his mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           115. If you trust too much, you can be deceived, but if you trust too little, you condemn yourself to constant torment. (B. Crane)           222. Of all the paths that lead to happiness, the surest are work and perseverance. (L. Reybaud)           52. A wise man demands everything only of himself, but a worthless man demands everything from others. (Chinese Proverb)           57. A noble man knows only duty, a base man knows only self-interest. (Confucius)           105. Folly never crosses boundaries. Wherever it steps, there lies its territory. (E. Lets)           10. The function of science in the life of society is to ensure governance in all areas of social activity in accordance with a specific concept given to society by the holders of conceptual power. (USSR Supreme Soviet)           44. If you do a good deed with difficulty, the difficulty will pass, but the good will remain. But if you do a bad deed with pleasure, the pleasure will pass, but the bad will remain. (M. Lomonosov)           1. We have little faith in what we find unpleasant to believe. (Ovid)           202. A promising person promises much, but delivers nothing.           179. Ideas become a material force if they take hold of the masses.           178. The invasion of armies can be resisted, but the invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.           120. Family interests almost always ruin public interests.           196. A family is a group of people united by blood ties and divided over money matters. (E. Ray)           87. Laziness is the daughter of wealth and the mother of poverty. (A. Decoussal)           93. A lie does not cease to be a lie because millions of people use it. (Leo Tolstoy)           76. And before consulting with whim, consult with your purse. (Benjamin Franklin)           42. Violence feeds on submission, like fire on straw. (V. Korolenko)           228. True glory consists in doing what is worth doing and writing what is worth reading. (Pliny)           248. It is incorrect to call the planet Earth, since most of it is ocean, not land.           140. If strength is united with justice, what could be stronger than this union? (Eskil)           193. We are religious enough to hate each other, but not religious enough to love each other. (D. Swift)           200. A person is like a fraction: its numerator is what he is, and the denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.           239. Rulers need wise men far more than wise men need rulers.           94. When a person has embarked on the path of deception, he is inevitably forced to pile one lie upon another.           116. A fool pursues pleasures and finds them; a wise man only avoids grief. (A. Schopenhauer)           233. A capable administrator will propose or carry out the transfer of personnel, changes in reporting, restructuring of the apparatus, etc. (V. I. Lenin)           36. Unpunished evil increases. (Vedas)           78. The same means that enable a man to become rich prevent him from enjoying his wealth. (B. Pascal)           205. Man really is like a monkey: the higher he climbs, the more he shows his backside.           30. Mercy is preferable to justice.           162. With agreement, small things grow; without agreement, great things collapse. (Sallust)           167. Generosity consists not in giving a lot, but in giving at the right time. (J. La Bruyère)           121. A special kind of slavery, both in society and in the family, is spiritual slavery, when the strong will of one paralyzes the will of another, turning them into unthinking stand-ins.           9. Better to learn late than never. (Aesop)           187. People could not live in society if they did not lead each other by the nose. (Laroche Foucault)           124. He who fans the flames of strife and stirs up the firebrands should not complain if sparks fall in his face.           225. In the day of prosperity, make use of the good, but in the day of adversity, reflect. (Ecclesiastes 7:14)           56. Referring to the bad actions of others is like washing yourself in mud. (J. Pshi-Sen)           32. If anyone wants to rebel alone against the universe, I advise him to flee, as Timon did, into the desert and there, in solitude, enjoy his wisdom. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)           241. If you demand a reward that exceeds your merits and it is refused, blame yourself, for you asked for more than your due. (Abu al-Faraj)           197. People are stubborn; they disagree with the most sound judgments not from a lack of insight, but from an excess of pride: they see that the front ranks in a just cause are taken, and they don't want to occupy the back.           235. To govern people, one needs intelligence. (N. Chamfort)           61. Before you say something to others, say it to yourself.           69. Brevity is the sister of wit. (A. Chekhov)           231. The voice of a clear conscience is sweeter than a hundred voices of glory.           171. He who has experienced the joy of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist. (A. Chekhov)           194. The criterion of truth is experience. (T. Campanella)           47. We are just when we are not self-interested! (B. Constant)           160. Each person should be expected to give what he can.           244. The greatest obstacle to transforming the monetary system is the fact that very few understand the problem, and even fewer know that a solution exists. (Margrit Kennedy)           136. It is easier to say a new word than to reconcile words already spoken. (J. La Bruyère)           68. Don't talk about triumph before victory. (Publius Syrus)           85. Hatred and flattery are the pitfalls on which truth is broken.           122. Parents work, children enjoy life, grandchildren are beggars. (Japanese proverb)           96. Insults are the arguments of the unjust.           41. When a thief, caught by Demosthenes, said to him, "I didn't know this was yours," Demosthenes replied, "But you knew it wasn't yours." (Demosthenes)           23. Let him who has done a good deed be silent. Let him who has received it speak. (Seneca)           11. The amount of convertible energy introduced by a teacher into the budget of humanity can be quite significant. Suppose that, by teaching the peasants of his community arithmetic, the teacher frees them from a whole series of petty deceptions. (S. A. Podolinsky)           220. The fool seeks happiness afar; the wise man cultivates it close to him. (R. Oppenheim)           141. Hate the bad in a person, but love him. (L. Tolstoy)           66. Everyone complains about their memory, but no one complains about their mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           214. Happiness makes friends, misfortune tests them. (Publius Syrus)           130. Do well, and let them say what they want. (A. Dumas, père)           229. If you don't succeed right away, try again and again. And then calm down and live for your own pleasure. (K. Fields)           152. Only a society with a desire to quickly accumulate energy can move forward quickly. (S. A. Podolinsky)           40. You cannot make a villain good. No matter how much you wash your anus, it will not become an eye. (Vedas)           207. If weapons breed crime, then pencils breed grammatical errors.           191. Trust given usually evokes loyalty in return. (T. Livy)           161. People are born to help each other, as a hand helps a hand, a foot helps a foot, and the upper jaw helps the lower. (M. Aurelius)           195. Through art, spirit speaks to spirit; matter is only the avenue through which communication takes place. (G. Grimm)           146. Our dignity lies not in the mastery of space, but in the ability to think rationally. I do not become richer, no matter how much land I acquire, because with space the Universe embraces and absorbs me, but with thought I embrace the Universe. (B. Pascal)           212. Exercise can replace many medicines. But no medicine in the world can replace exercise.           125. By doing nothing, people learn to do evil. (Latin proverb)           190. The better the means of communication, the further man is from man. (J. Kurek)           223. If one or two kind words can make a person happy, one would have to be a scoundrel to deny them. (T. Penn)           232. When there are too many helmsmen, the ship will be stranded. (A. Fayol)           117. To err in nothing is a characteristic of the gods. (Demosthenes)           103. An oath is a guarantee, useless with honest people and deceptive with others. (A. Decourcelle)           166. Do you know what you must do to keep up? You must move forward.           29. He who does not commit injustice is honorable; but more honorable is he who does not allow others to commit injustice. (Plato)           27. Nothing costs us so little and is valued so highly as politeness. (M. Cervantes)           230. Diligence is the mother of success. (M. Cervantes)           17. What people call fate is, in essence, only the sum of their own stupid actions. (A. Schopenhauer)           62. Saying is not doing. (Publilius Syrus)           240. Desire is the measure of value. (B. Gracian)           65. Do not argue with chatterboxes: speech is given to everyone, reason to few. (A. Claudius)           53. A wise man differs from a fool in that he thinks to the end. (A. Maikov)           99. Excessive pride is the sign of a worthless soul. (I. Turgenev)           51. All the world's problems arise from the fact that fools and fanatics are always overconfident, while intelligent people are full of doubts. (Bernard Russell)           186. Today, as soon as you approach a door, it opens automatically; as soon as you approach a person, he automatically closes. (P. Salvorsen)           114. Foolish people believe in luck, strong people in cause and effect. (R. Emerson)           12. Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of immorality.           50. Although we think we live in a democracy, over time it will turn out to be an oligarchy at best, and a fascist regime at worst, since money in the hands of an ever-increasing number of people cannot be politically controlled. (Margrit Kennedy)           13. If people achieve inner harmony, they will achieve harmony in the family, and if they achieve harmony in the family, harmony will reign in the state.           112. You cannot belittle a person without being humbled by him. (D. Washington)           184. You work for others, but the skill remains with you. (Kyrgyz proverb)           177. Nothing travels faster than word of mouth. (Seneca)           211. You can't heal the body without healing the soul. (Socrates)           143. It often happens that it is better to ignore an insult than to avenge it later.           198. There are people who prefer to think about bees stinging than about them producing honey. (E. Krotky)           173. Labor is the consumption of mechanical and mental work accumulated in the body, which results in an increase in the amount of convertible energy on the earth's surface. (S. A. Podolinsky)           245. War… is just for those for whom it is inevitable, and arms are pious in the hands of those who have no hope left. (Machiavelli, The Prince)           54. A noble man blames himself, a mean man blames others. (Confucius)           60. Success gives many things, but not friends. (J. La Bruyère)           106. Learning is most intolerable in a fool.           113. People are lonely because instead of bridges, they build walls. (NN)           24. Remorse begins where impunity ends. (K. Helvetsky)           104. Those who wear blinders should remember that the kit also includes a bit and a whip. (E. Lets)           98. Cunning helps only once, and then only hinders.           46. Any skirmish with a deaf-mute, an idiot, or a teenager is fraught with anxiety, for you are responsible for it, but they are not. (Mishnah)           15. The thoughts of living beings are similar – they all strive for what is pleasant and avert what is unpleasant. Understand this and do not do to others what you yourself do not desire. (Vedas)           102. For most people, conscience is nothing more than a fear of the opinions of others. (D. Taylor)           92. A lie is a very inadequate substitute for the truth, yet it is still widely circulated among people. (M. Larney)           226. If the amount of energy conserved always corresponded to all the needs of all people, then, of course, there would be neither want nor distress on Earth. (S. A. Podolinsky)           148. All information should be adapted to the perception of society.           182. Everyone can find freedom if only they know how to limit themselves and find themselves. (W. Goethe)           20. A good deed is performed with effort; but when the effort is repeated several times, it becomes a habit.           48. If swindlers knew all the advantages of honesty, they would stop cheating for profit.           208. No amount of reasoning can show a person a path he does not want to see. (R. Rolland)           49. Whose army is the strongest is the peacemaker.           111. A person who cannot sacrifice the personal for the sake of a greater goal will achieve nothing in life.           128. Never hold people by the button or the hand to make them listen to you; if they don't want to listen to you, better hold your tongue. (F. Chesterton)           201. As soon as an action is explained by complex reasoning, be sure that it is bad. (L. Tolstoy)           134. Good taste speaks less of intelligence than of clarity of judgment. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           71. A clear mind gives to the soul what health gives to the body. (J. La Bruyère)           82. You do harm if you praise; but even more harm if you criticize what you yourself understand little about. (L. da Vinci)           185. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a crisis is when you lose your job. (H. Truman)           192. We are never so grateful for anything as for gratitude. (M. Ebner-Eschenbach)           203. The effort a person makes to conceal their shortcomings is greater than the effort needed to get rid of them.           2. It's difficult to add new thoughts to a head full of stereotypes.           209. Before jumping to conclusions, make sure you're looking at things from the other side.           242. The whole secret of business is to know something that no one else knows. (A. Onassis)           238. To govern is to do right. If in governing you do right, who will dare to do wrong? (Confucius)           97. Cunning is a sign of a narrow-minded mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           45. If you try to please everyone, you will end up pleasing no one. (A. Graf)           6. Schoolteachers wield power that prime ministers can only dream of. (W. Churchill)           21. All the fine feelings in the world weigh less than one good deed. (D. Lowell)           217. One of the most astonishing misconceptions is the misconception that happiness lies in doing nothing.           181. The madness of one is an aberration, the madness of the crowd is fashion.           170. If there is the highest of pleasures, it is the pleasure of creation. (N. Gogol)           119. You call yourself free. Free from what, or free for what? (F. Nietzsche)           88. Laziness, like rust, corrodes faster than labor wears it out. (B. Franklin)           107. He who asks nothing will learn nothing. (T. Fuller)           215. Carelessness is most often the source of misfortune. (P. Velleius)           84. Ignorance is the twilight where evil lurks. (V. Hugo)           139. What you sow in youth, you will reap in maturity. (G. Ibsen)           35. The crime of the wicked is a temptation for many. (W. Feder)           147. The people need not abstract ideas, but truisms. (A. Rivarol)           109. Only fools and the dead never change their minds. (D. Lowam)           14. Any human action that conflicts with moral principles does not go unpunished: if you take, it will be taken from you; if you give, it will be given to you; if you do nothing, nothing will be done to you; If you destroy, you will be destroyed; if you create, you will be created for. Where you begin, so will you end, and if you do not witness the retribution yourself, your children and grandchildren will.           19. Virtue and vice, moral good and evil, in all countries are determined by whether a given phenomenon is useful or harmful to society. (Voltaire)           159. Weak people wait for favorable opportunities, strong people create them. (A. Afinogenov)           70. The path of precepts is long, but short and successful is example. (Seneca)           131. The ability to speak distinguishes people from the animal world; the ability to remain silent distinguishes man from the world of men. (G. Landau)           79. Life is a comedy for him who thinks, and a tragedy for him who feels. (Epicurus)           199. There are people who do something decent – ​​and smugly tell the whole world about it. And thus they remain pleasantly busy their entire lives. (V. Belinsky)           7. Once you've silenced a man, you haven't convinced him. (D. Morley)           247. Nature knows no goals; it can only count results. (S. A. Podolinsky)           153. There are two paths to rise in this world: through one's own hard work or at the expense of others' stupidity.           5. We give advice by the bucketful and take it by the drop.           132. The awareness of one's own strength multiplies it. (J. La Bruyère)           126. He who does nothing himself loves to lecture others. (Mongolian proverb)           37. The greatest encouragement to crime is impunity. (Cicero)           59. If you feel no love for others, sit quietly.           91. All malice is the result of weakness.           83. It is typical of a bad person to praise and criticize the same things. (Latin proverb)           80. It is easy to criticize an author, difficult to appreciate him. (J. La Bruyère)           28. Gratitude is the result of a high level of moral development. You will not find it among ill-mannered people. (S. Johnson)           34. Do not fear your enemies: at worst, they can kill you. Do not fear your friends: at worst, they can betray you. Fear the indifferent, for with their tacit consent, treason and murder exist on earth. (B. Jasensky)           26. Politeness is the hygiene of human relations. (A. Kruglov)           77. He who has not found it in himself will find no peace anywhere. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           31. Admit a wise man to a banquet, and he will immediately confuse everyone with sullen silence or inappropriate questions. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)           8. The only condition on which success depends is patience. (L. Tolstoy)           172. There are two incentives to work in the broad sense of the word: need, the sad necessity of working for a living, the curse of labor inflicted on the seed of Adam, condemned to eat their daily bread by the sweat of their brow. And there is another incentive: the thirst for interesting, enjoyable, exciting work—work that provides inner satisfaction. Such work "to the soul" is usually creative work in the broadest sense. (V. Vorovsky)           243. Cooperation, not competition, must be the motto of humanity if humanity is to survive. (Margrit Kennedy)           137. Wisdom has no need of violence.           38. He who does not punish evil contributes to its commission. (L. da Vinci)           25. Life is not so short that people do not have time for politeness. (R. Emerson)           150. If a society bases its well-being and development on a limited, constantly diminishing resource, then a global problem of the sustainability of human development arises. (S. A. Podolinsky)           156. Our purpose is not to seek better situations elsewhere, but to make better the ones we find ourselves in.           149. There are countries that were once rich and were reduced to near-deserts, but such events were too clearly dependent on economic mismanagement. (S. A. Podolinsky)           224. Even those who want to make others happy by force are oppressors. (D. Eremić)           95. The surest sign of truth is simplicity and clarity. A lie is always complex, pretentious, and verbose. (L. Tolstoy)           206. Change your opinions, keep your principles: change your leaves, keep your roots. (Victor Hugo)           145. One of the first precautions is to balance desires and possibilities. (S. Mikhalkov)           218. By caring for the happiness of others, we find our own. (Plato)           138. Victories are prepared before battles begin.           3. The well-being of a people, the optimal structure of society, and the future of a country are determined by the existing level of community, which should be fostered by the system of upbringing and education. Without community, there will be nothing.           165. He who wants to do something finds a means. He who does not want to do anything finds an excuse. (Arabic proverb)           33. Two things make a man godlike: living for the good of society and truthfulness. (Pythagoras)           188. Human relationships are a mutually beneficial egoism.           86. No one hurries others like the lazy: having indulged their laziness, they want to seem diligent. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           43. A thief is not only someone who illegally took what they need, but also someone who keeps what they don't need for themselves, not giving it to others.           174. God gave us relatives; thank God that we can choose our friends.           204. Flattery is the honey and seasoning in all communication between people. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)           74. A person who tries to change others is wasting his time if he has not started with himself. (I. Loyola)           58. When self-interest is the only motive, malice multiplies.           63. Language is our tool; when using it, we must take care that its springs do not creak. (A. Rivarol)           176. Time is money.           4. Destroy the social side of a person, and you'll get a ferocious orangutan. (A. Herzen)           22. The reward for a good deed is its performance.           127. When busy, people speak only when they have something to say, but when idle, the need to talk incessantly arises.           189. We like other people's things better, others like ours. (Publius Syrus)           90. Anger is a momentary madness.           155. A person can only claim as much joy and happiness as he gives to others.           55. The fact that someone is worse than you does not make you better. (V. Borisov)           227. Titles and honors are invented for those whose services to the country are indisputable, but unknown to the people of that country. (B. Shaw)           108. No one is smart enough alone. (Titus Plautus)           101. If you are told, "My wealth was acquired through hard work," ask, "Whose?" (Don Marquis)           75. A man who does not think about what may happen in the future will certainly soon encounter sorrows. (Confucius)           72. Where style is obscure, error reigns. (A. Rivarol)           183. What the soul desires, the hands will follow.           180. Ideas can be neutralized only by ideas.           110. If no one loves you, rest assured it is your own fault. (F. Doddridge)           81. To criticize is to show the author that he does not do what I would do if I knew how. (K. Čapek)           163. Each person is like a letter in the alphabet; to form a word, one must merge with others. (O. Maldestam)